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•  The Subsidized Occupation: Palestine and the Arabs

  The modern Middle East suffers from a consequentially glaring paradox: oil-rich Arab states undoubtedly possess some of the most concentrated geopolitical and economic leverage on the planet.  Yet, they have, since the 1970s, declined to use their economic indispensability in defense of Palestinian statehood and to uphold their own sovereignty.   The pivot of Arab Gulf

• Where the Scent of Crime Ends

  As a journalist and political prisoner, the entire “heavy” burden of Room 3 in Ward B10 of Silivri Prison, which I had just stepped into, was Dede—the old man who lay on the bunk by the window. When he skyrocketed from his bed with his heavy, bulky body and let out a wheezing breath from

• The Abstraction of War: Ukraine, Proxy Dynamics, and the Erasure of the Working Class

  The history of warfare shows that conflicts end either with a clear victory by one side or through negotiations when both face the exhaustion of resources and the will to continue sacrificing lives. There is also a third way: a silent ending of hostilities, the establishment of a ‘cold peace,’ and the freezing of the